Tag: Walt Whitman

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.